Balochistan: BLA claims killing of 15 Pakistani soldiers

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Balochistan: BLA says it killed 29 Pakistani soldiers, injured several others in multiple attacks
Special Tactical Operations Squad (STOQ) of Baloch Liberation Army (BLA).

Quetta, June 21 (NVI) Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) tonight claimed to have killed 15 Pakistani soldiers and injured 6 in six coordinated attacks in Kalat district of Balochistan during the day.

These attacks included IED explosions and armed assaults, BLA spokesman Jeeyand Baloch said in a statement.

Giving details, he said BLA freedom fighters first targeted occupying Pakistani army personnel near the dam in the Mangochar area of Kalat by detonating in a remote-controlled IED.

The soldiers were hit when they reached a temporary outpost to provide security to an army convoy, he said.

The freedom fighters had already planted explosives there and detonated those,  eliminating 2 enemy army personnel on the spot, the spokesman said.

Soon after, more army personnel reached the spot and the freedom fighters then detonated the second IED attack.

As a result of the explosion, 2 more enemy personnel were eliminated on the spot, while 4 others were seriously injured, he said.

Meanwhile, another batch of freedom fighters targeted enemy personnel using IED in Makai area near Morgund in Kalat district the spokesman said, adding 2 personnel were eliminated on the spot.

The BLA freedom fighters also eliminated 2 enemy personnel of the bomb disposal team in an IED attack while they were engaged in route clearance in the said area, he said.

Freedom fighters also targeted a vehicle of Pakistani army advancing in the area by carrying out a remote-controlled IED attack, Jeeyand Baloch said.

As a result, the vehicle was completely destroyed and all 4 personnel on board were eliminated, he said.

Freedom fighters also ambushed a convoy of motorcycles and other vehicles of the Pakistani army advancing in the same area, the spokesman said.

One vehicle of occupying army came under attack, as a result of which 3 enemy army personnel were eliminated on the spot and two were seriously injured, he said. (NVI)